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Hungarian Rhapsodies

ADOPTION
ÖRÖKBEFOGADÁS

• Director: Márta Mészáros
• HUNGARY / 1975 / DCP / B&W / 88’ / Hungarian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Márta Mészáros, Gyula Hernádi, Ferenc Grunwalsky
• Director of Photography: Lajos Koltai, Márta Mészáros
• Editing: Éva Kármentõ
• Music: György Kovács
• Cast: Katalin Berek, Gyöngyvér Vígh, László Szabó, Péter Fried, István Szõke
• Production Co.: Hungarofilm, Hunnia Filmstúdió
• World Sales: National Film Institute Hungary

1975 Berlin Best Film, Interfilm Award

Adoption was the first Hungarian film to compete in Berlin, and Márta Mészáros became the first female director to ever be awarded the Golden Bear. With 30 feature films and numerous documentaries to her name, and a pioneer of auteur films, Márta Mészáros was considered as one of the most important directors by the 70s and 80s feminist movements. Intimate and simple, Adoption examined motherhood, family, disadvantaged situation of women, women’s relationships, traditional family structures from the perspective of women, and this was totally new in Central European cinema. Adoption follows a lonely, middle-aged factory worker who would like to escape the emptiness that surrounds her by having a child. One day, a teenage girl who has run away from a home seeks shelter with her, and as they get to know each other, her outlook into life changes. ‘Adoption is like a book you can put on a shelf and read again whenever you want to,’ says Mészáros.

This film is screened as part of the Turkish-Hungarian Cultural Year with the kind contribution of of the Liszt Institute Hungarian Culture Center and the Hungarian National Film Institute.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.